SANFORD, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - 2024/04/08: Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks at a press conference in Sanford, Florida (Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced on Wednesday that he plans to have the state eliminate all vaccine mandates.

This decisiion is shocking for a number of reasons and feels like he is opening Pandora’s box. Over my 40 years of infectious disease practice, I stopped seeing sepsis from Haemophilus B or pneumococcus, as more people got vaccinated. I even had two patients with tetanus who hadn’t been immunized. Before meningococcal vaccines were more often recommended, we had a small outbreak of meningococcal meningitis in our town, ki

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